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Attitude and the Law of Attraction · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Law of Attraction has been seen as something of a wish
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  fulfilling gem where we can think about something and focus
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  on it and thereby draw it to us. The reality of the Law of
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  Attraction is not so dramatic as to cause riches, fame and other
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  desired results to manifest for us somewhat automatically, but
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  is nevertheless a reality that we can and should understand and
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  utilize In the way we manoeuvre our way through life.
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  We tend to resonate towards those things that are compatible
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  with our energetic vibration. Similarly, we tend to attract
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  those things which find our energetic vibration suitable.
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  This mutual attraction tends to help sort out what we experience
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  in life so that each individual has a unique set of experiences.
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  It has been said that what we fear the most is the thing we
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  are actually drawing towards us. At the same time, the fear tends
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  to open up a hole in our energetic envelope to allow the
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  feared thing to approach and enter.
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  The same can be said for those things we desire.
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  What we desire most tends to draw us into events and
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  circumstances and opportunities that help us achieve that
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  desire. Our basic attitude toward life
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  is part of the mechanism by which we steer and focus our
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  attention and thereby create the various attractions and
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  repulsions that govern our vital existence.
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  This attitude can also spell the difference between a good
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  outcome and a bad outcome, as forces that support are drawn to
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  a positive upward looking attitude and forces that
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  obstruct or harm are drawn to a negative downward looking
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  attitude, the mother writes. Quote If in the presence of
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  circumstances that are about to take place, you can take the
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  highest attitude possible. That is, if you put your
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  consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within
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  reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the
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  best that can happen to you. But as soon as you fall from
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  this consciousness into a lower state, then it is evidently not
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  the best that can happen, for the simple reason that you are
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  not in your very best consciousness.
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  I even go so far as to affirm that in the zone of immediate
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  influence of each one, the right attitude not only has the power
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  to turn every circumstance to advantage, but can change the
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  very circumstance itself. For instance, when a man comes
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  to kill you, if you remain in the ordinary consciousness and
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  get frightened out of your wits, he will most probably succeed in
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  doing what he came for. If you rise a little higher,
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  and, though full of fear, call for the Divine help, he may just
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  miss you, doing you a slight injury.
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  If, however, you have the right attitude and the full
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  consciousness of the Divine Presence everywhere around you,
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  he will not be able to lift a finger against you.
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  I have had innumerable examples of the power of right attitude.
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  I have seen crowds save from catastrophes by one single
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  person keeping the right attitude.
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  But it must be an attitude that does not remain somewhere very
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  high and leaves the body to its usual reactions.
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  If you remain high up like that, saying let God's will be done,
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  you may get killed all the same, for your body may be quite
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  undivine, shivering with fear. The thing is to hold the true
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  consciousness in the body itself, and not have the least
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  fear and be full of the divine peace, then indeed there is no
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  danger. Not only can attacks of men be
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  warded off, but beasts also, and even the elements can be
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  affected. End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu
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  and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 7 Attitude, pages 65 to
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  66.